Man arrested over Nord Stream bombing was consultant on film about it starring Sean Penn

<p>Volodymyr Zhuravlev had been consulted on Snake Island, a dramatised reconstruction of incident</p><p>Earlier this month locals in Zagreb noticed something odd outside an art deco building. Sandbags and barricades appeared in front of the Esplanade hotel, along with a film crew and extras sporting Ukrainian military uniforms. Soon afterwards the actors Sean Penn and Adrien Brody were spotted on the set in the Croatian capital, together with <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/video/2014/may/29/emily-blunt-doug-liman-edge-tomorrow-video">Doug Liman</a>, the Hollywood director of the Jason Bourne movies.</p><p>Liman had come to shoot his latest fictional political thriller. Its subject: the 2022 Nord Stream explosions, in which a team of Ukrainian divers allegedly blew up a pipeline supplying Russian natural gas to Germany. One of the chief suspects, Volodymyr Zhuravlev, had twice eluded the Germany authorities: once allegedly slipping out of Poland in the boot of a diplomatic car,<strong> </strong>and on another occasion freed by a court.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/20/man-arrested-nord-stream-volodymyr-zhuravlev-consultant-film-sean-penn-snake-island">Continue reading...</a>